{"id":4422,"date":"2010-11-24T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2010-12-08T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:00:04","slug":"the-topic-that-must-not-be-named%e2%80%a6is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-topic-that-must-not-be-named%e2%80%a6is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Topic That Must Not Be Named\u2026Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lennon_chapman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4423\" title=\"lennon_chapman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lennon_chapman-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lennon_chapman-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lennon_chapman.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This offlist note just in from a Townsperson who must not be named!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may remember 2 years ago, at the first RTH gathering I attended, that I brought up a potential RTH topic that I thought was too tasteless to ever actually bring up on the board or start as a post: <em>What would be the &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Desk&#8221; of rock memorabilia?<\/em> That is, the most gruesome\/tasteless\/bad karma infamous rock item that only a truly depraved collector would dare own.<\/p>\n<p>My choice at the time, which I was sure no one could ever top if the topic ever came up\u2014which it wouldn&#8217;t, and I would never own up to thinking of even if it did, of course\u2014was the copy of <em>Double Fantasy<\/em> that <strong>Mark David Chapman<\/strong> had when he killed Lennon.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the real world has caught up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/nov\/24\/album-john-lennon-signed-auction\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/nov\/24\/album-john-lennon-signed-auction<\/a>. The auctioneer even agrees: this is so terrible a thing to own that the person selling it must do so in secret, for fear of his\/her own life and\/or standing on rock message boards around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Unnamed Townsperson, I remember this discussion and contine to get a good laugh out of that topic. This reality, however, is sick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This offlist note just in from a Townsperson who must not be named! You may remember 2 years ago, at the first RTH gathering I attended, that I brought up a potential RTH topic that I thought was too tasteless to ever actually bring up on the board or start as a post: What would <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-topic-that-must-not-be-named%e2%80%a6is\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[170,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}